I Great Sea-Air Battle Off Italy
I Indicates Mai or Move By Allies
Government
Supplements
Soldier Pay
Measure Approved by
Senate Requires Draft
Boards to Consider
Family Relationships
in Calling Men for
Duly.
t\ tiing tun. .1(1 lie 15.— ( A1’) —
The senate approved and sent
tn lhr House today a military
1 pay allotment bill requiring
drall hoards to consider family
relationships in calling men for
dtilx with the armed forces.
I mlcr flic basic section of the
measure, details of which were
rex iscd 'asl xvcck by a joint con
fi rcia c committee, the govern
nicit would help the lour loxxest
rank- of soldiers, sailors, ma
rines and coastguardsmcn sup
pur'. their dependents.
1)' taken Irani the men's
pay i be supplemented by fed
cr i ances wjjich in some eases
; i considerably larger than
tile ’mg man’s contribution.
1 he second section of the bill
rrvi-cs the selective service act
h.x rr(|uiring local draft boards
In first exhaust supplies of sin
511 iwii or those without bona
fid family ties, before calling
up husbands and fathers.
mancial aid would ever
(ii- nts of privates, first class
corporals and line sergeants
in '■ ■ Army, and ol corresponding
gr n u the other services.
A e with no children would
Be’ • i month—$22 I v i Iw lius
boi oil S2!i from the government
>' d one child the government
v. odd $12. and $1(1 lor each
‘I ; oil child. For one child hut
the soldier would provide
$2" ■ i the government $20 a month,
eminent adding $10 for each
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Senate Hears
Greek King
■ ngton. June 15.— (AP) —
1- 1 George II of Greece told the 1
s 1 today that his country “i i
I' ■ to find it sell a -econd time
1 ’ !• a quarter of a century by ■
tie of the powerful and gener- ;
1 miriean democracy.”
1 the United States.” the exited
■ h said, “my country alwa.v
h cid -upport ad sypathetic un- i
tic ! aiding. The valuable aid which
1 1 i -a e given us during this war
" ne\ - r be forgotten.”
Sub Victims
Now Total 265
In Atlantic
(15y The Associated Press)
With tiie Germans threatening a
m widespread campaign against
al1 shipping in tiie Atlantic north of
•hr West Indies, the total ol' ships
■' "h by enemy submarines in the
1’m Atlantic now stands at 26.». i
Additional sinkings ol 13 merchant
;hip' last week and one yesterday
'Vl re officially announced. More
"■an 31)4 crewmen and passengers ol
'he l-i .flips were reported rescued,
"hde Hi lix-es were lost and ()5 per
Sll|,‘ were missing.
Scxen United States ships, two
',! ’ish. one Norwegian, one Braz
'han, one Swedish and one unidenti
'h'd allied merchantman were in
cluded in luM week’s sinkings lhc
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It Uocd to Be a Cake
~' * UimfJ IIMrit I fc- *m
Looking somewhat puzzled, a mem
ber of the A.E.F. in Australia sur
veys a battered mess in his lap. It
took him some time to figure out
that it was a cake baked for him by
his girl friend in the U. S. The icing,
after its ocean voyage, had turned
to powdered sugar and a number of
other changes had taken place too.
In the long run, however, he was
pleased because it showed she was
still thinking of him.
(Central Press)
Gas Rations
Cut Mishaps
East’s Motorists Bal
ance Good Results
Against Inconven
ience and Business Up
set.
(I5y Tilt* Associated I'rcss)
Ten million eastern motorists
having undergone their first
month of gasoline rationing, the
17 fuel-starved state involved
look stock today of the v\ar
causcd measures myriad ramifi
cations, and found them both
good and bad.
Oil the credit . id of the ledger as
• cm rally p. pwted along the Allan
ic .cal 10anl, decrease, in 1 ra 11 ic iat
ij,tit.-, and in juvenile deliiuplenc.v
■ mlnned vv iih the conserv atimi ol
• a ailim. to temper the pinch of ra
ioulng.
(in pm debit list, tilling stations,
■evenin' producing bridgis and tun
lels, aiMii.-emeu! centers and some
.jimg- L. e[11 have been lnt in vary
n<. di i, e a. general eomplianee
j 11 i the gas cut was everywhere
widen!.
Aiitlioi'ihe from Maine to Florida
■epor'ed these major results ol ra
ioning:
], Traffic fatalities decreas'd, in
rereentages rainging up to -td.
o. Accidents on the highways de
•l-eased, lay as much as 50 per cent.
,'j. Hundred- ol service stations
.vei’e forced to close.
4. Juvenile delinquency decreased
.. hat ..- parent saved their cars
Hi pie own nor''.-, ary iim s.
f,. t, ,11 bridges sul'l'i red revenue
(Continued on Page Two)
Rome Claims
Push To Coast
Kmm (From Italian Broadcasts),
June ir>_( AIM—The Italian high
rnmmand declared today that axis
forces in the l.itfyan desert had b.v
passed the British near Aeroma and
ieiven to the Mediterranean coast
west of Tobruk.
Hi 11i -h 11tin s remaining to *tbe
wc*-t of the new axis gap were said to
:,c encircled. This would mean the
Briti h imperials defending Ain el
lamia, northern extremity of the
-,,-j: ip.i'i di-ten.-e t'" v hs'h the axi .
-h-eariv has outflanked and pierced.
Ch inese Wa rriors \
Capture Positions
In Eastern China
JAPANESE PLANES
BOMBARD DARWIN
Allied Headquarters. Aus
tralia. June IV- (AIM—liar
win. Australia's nin th coast base,
was raided h> Japanese war
planes tuda> I'nr (he (bird suc
cessive da.\ and a I'ew Casual
ties resulted. (.eneral Mae
Ai tluir's headquarters annouiie
ed.
President Roosevelt
Reports Amount I o
End of May 1 otais
$4,497,000,000.
Washington, .ftinc 17.— i YPi—
President Konsevelt informed
Congress today that letul-lease
aid up to the end ul May totaled
S, 197.000,000 ami that while the
battle of production was on the
the way to being won. the bat
tle of distribution was in it>
critical phase."
"Our reservoir of resources is now
approaching flood stage." lie said.
"The next step is for our military,
industiial and shipping experts to
direct it lull forces against the cen
ters ol enemy power
"Great 15rit and the I'nited
Stales a ri * ' ; ■, co* ;i mi e -d ac
tion to carry our i; c, and weapons |
i ill any t li ing tiiat v ii I lo;it or i i\ I
to tli- place ■ 11 oi, which wo cun
launch "Ur < >1 fen - i\ c
.Mr. Konsevelt summed up for
Congress the results of 17 mouths
of lend-lease npcalions— with
the emphasis finally shifted from
foodstuffs and industrial mater
ials to a preponderanee ol fight
ing weapons and military items.
The le nd-It a t program wa in
t,t Uli'il • ^ an 11 i 911 and the
aid c>. tel pled i nee Pat t me t i t; a
Ilnti li c: -cilia nv ■ alt) of nation u.d
9a other conn; lac ha. anmm:tcd to
S3,d73,dOO.(HHI m ■ od and yl).t i.uua.
0110 III -■ lice scr. re- a repairin'.;
ship-, ferrying i.ireialt and provid
ing product iOli f.a'iii i a ill th. cuun- !
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AMERICAN PILOT
WITH RAF SINKS
TWO NAZI PLANES
I ,ihkIi m, J nne 1 •">. — (AP) —An
American volunteer with tin l!AK —
Squadron header W. 1!. Cooper of
St. Petersburg, Pla. -was credited i
today with sinking two German sup
ply shfps oft the coast of Holland last |
niglit.
Cooper, piloting an American
made Hudson bomber, strutted a
three-ship convoy oil IP n Holder,
the air ministry news service said,
and swooped down to drop hi.- bombs,
sinking two and hitting the third.
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Capias Issued
For Attorney
Concord. .Tune la.—(AP)—Judge
Zeb V. Nettles issued a capias for the
arrest of Stoner W. Kluttz, Salisbury
lawyer and a senatorial candidate
in the recent primary, when Kluttz
failed to appear in superior court
hen at noon to am wer a citation for
contempt.
Nettles acted after overruling a
motion by Buford Blackvvelder,
Concord attorney, seeking to di qual
ify him a pre.i'diii", judge.
The heating wa- then continued
aft-til - P u'l.
1 Japanese Conrronted
With Major Diversion
! in Pincers Drive;
To! yo Belatedly
C! a ms Sinking U. S.
V/ar ships.
< hungking. .lime 15 —t.\P)—
Vn invasion column o! lapauesc
striking into Kiangsi province
from flic east lias penetrated
into Kwangfcng, 25 miles be
yond the Chekiang border, cut
ting the Chinese-held central
x'-eti m of the Kiangsi-Chekiang
rail line to less than 100 miles,
the high command said tonight.
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(By The Associated Press)
In the Asiatic theatre. Chin
ese Generalissimo Cliiang Kai
Shek's warriors were reported
| today to have captured positions
I within rifle shot of Nanehang,
j enemy base in Kiangsi province.
The Chinese, stid the central
Daily New s at Chungking, gained
f positions across the Kan river
from Nanehang in fierce battles
yesterday, thereby confronting
the Japanese with at least a
major diversoin in their Kiangsi
Chekiang pincers drive against
other large Chinese forces.
Nanehang is a terminus of the
Kiangsi-Chekiang railway which
1 lio Japanese have been trying to
occupy completely by driving from
both ends of the line against the
Chinese-held middle section. Nan
ciiang. in Japanese hands since 1938.
ho.- be n under Chinese attack sever
al times.
The Japanese reported the cap- I
lure of Shangjao in .ea.-ter Kiangsi, I
about 25 miles from the ChekKtng
border.
While the Chinese fought a
battle of delay and harrassment,
the China Times at Chungking
urged an allied offensive at once
to drive the Japanese from their
foothold in the extremity of the
Mcutians islands and “pursue
t hem right to the heart of
Ta nan."
Tokyo, -till trying to recover far"
lor the recent naval licking of Mid- !
way i.-lond. announced belatedly to
day that the Japanese had sunk a
cnii.-er of the “San Francisco type" .
and a dimarine in that battle. The
United States Navy has announced
it.- losses iii the Midway battle as
one destroyer sunk and an aircraft
carried damaged.
There i> no “San Rranci-co type"
eniist r. There is however, a San
Francisco, one of .-(“veil cruisers of
the Minneapolis class, varying from
11.375 to 9.950 tons each.
I
Indians Told
Of Axis Ideals
Beilin (From German Broadcasts)
June ID.—(AD —1Diplomatic repre
sentatives of Germany, Italy and
.Japan told a meeting of Indian rep
resentative-'at Bangkok today that-1
the axis was motivated by lofty
purposes in wishing to see India at
tain independence, and had no terri
torial interest there.
(The so-called Indian independence
conference called by Japan at the
Thai capital is being attended by I
Indian nationalist elements for the
most part excluded from India nr
ro'<r.ui \ up from the Indian colonies
in Japanese-conquered Burma,
Thailand and Malaya.)
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
I.iKI- ill temperature
except slightly warmer m ex
ti citiC West .',ei own tOiligill
Bataan Heroines Back Home
U. S. Army Signal Corps Phot*
Smilingly posing at the Presidio in San Francisco are three U. S. Army
nurses after their arrival from the Pacific war zone. They saw service
in besieged Bataan, taking care of from 180 to 235 patients each and
working seventeen hours daily. The ordeal was so tough that the girl*
lost from fifteen to twenty-five pounds apiece.
Hard Hghting Rages
In Northern Africa
Medals Returned
To Japan—With
500-Pound Bomb
New Yuri;, June 13.— (AP)—
()n October !). 19UH. the emperor
of Japan presented two medal.
to MasLr Rigger Henry Vorm
aiein oi Lakeview. X. V.. and
Shipwright .1 dm 11. Laurey ol
Brooklyn, seamen on the U. S. S.
('(>nnect 'Mit win n the U. S. bat
tle! loot \ ..'ill(i Japan.
tin la.-t Januai'.i 26 Vorm.-Jein
and 1 .aan y - iit tin 11 to Xavy
Secretary Kik\ and asked that
tiiey !a returned, with a bomb.
Km ■: i-miuuiuw 1 ■ -day the*
the mi-si oi v. .is ml; died on
Apni I ik 'Ike im'dal , atlaeneo
to a r.'iu -j" Iii'icl bomb, were
di i ip|led .m I'uk.yo "\\ itii appi op
riale ei'i cm iy ."
Twelve Die
Violently
Death Toll From Sea
board Wreck Boosts
Week-End. Violent
Death Total for State.
Charlotte. June 13.—(AP)—At
least twelve per on- died violent
deaths in North Carolina during the
week-end. Three resulted from high
way accident.-.
Fred Klultz. about 40, of Lincoln
county, and Johnnie Harris. 21, of
Newton, route 1, were killed near
Newton in a collision ol two auto
mobiles. Seven other.- were hurt, two
critically.
A man identified at Rex hospital
in Raleigh as Edgar E. Brooks, 26, of
Garner, route 1. died several hours
alter an automobile overturned near
Raleigh.
Eight persons were killed at Kit
h-ell when a freight train plowed
Into the Seaboard Airline’s stream
liner, the Sliver Meteor.
Several hours after the wreck the
body ol 11. M. Terrel. oi>. superm
'i-nrlent of the Virginia division of thi
railroad—in which the accident hap
i nid—waj found -hot to death at
Kaisagh
British Eighth Army
Repulses German Ar
mored Forces West of
Tobruk and Counter
Attacks Vigorously in
Same Area.
Cairo. June 15.— (AP)—The
British eighth army. alter fight
ing a furious battle with German
armored forces attempting to
drive a wedge between Tobruk
and its western defenses at Ain
el Gazala. is “counter attacking
vigorously." general headquar
ters announcement today.
"Heavy fighting continues,”
the communique said, indicating
that despite the counter thrust
of the British. the Germans
were still pressing strongly.
"The enemy are attacking our
position near Acroma in an attempt
to isolate tin.' troops remaining in the
Ain cl Gazala salient.1"
Ain el Gazala is nearly 40 miles
west of Tobruk.
“The battle has become fluid, with
the Germans attacking northward
from Trigh C’apuzzo and our mobile
loi'cc.s in turn are attacking their
rear from the south.
"The enemy has been cleared
:rom eastward of El Aden:.
"Tin eighth army is counter at
tacking vigorously and is in process
oi adjusting its dispositions to meet
di velopments.”
With Field Marshal Erwin Rom
mel’s land forces still hammering at
British lines defending Tobruk, the
German air force has opened an as
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Survivors
Save Would-Be
Rescue Ship
An East Coast Port, June 15.—
(AP)—Survivors ol a torpedoed
American merchantman, adrift in the
Caribbean sea. twice out-argued
persistent would-be rescuers and
waved them out of an area where a
submarine was known to be lurk
ing.
Two men died in the sinking of
the vessel south of Cuba June 1.
Fifty-three others — including four
passcngi rs, 14 members of n gun
crew and 35 (regular crewmen —
escaped in two lifeboats and told the
story released by the Navy today.
Two Imrord a fired an h.-ur am.: *.
iinishec. me sn.p
I -
Two British
CcnvoysNow
Under Attack
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Italians Report Sink
ing of Ships and Dam
age to Others in Fight
Between Tunisia and
Italian Island of Sar
dinia.
(By The* Associated Press)
A great running sea-air bat
tle, which on the lace of axis
reports—the only information
available thu> lar—seems to
have stemmed from a major
strategical move of the allies,
was being fought today at Italy's
Mediterranean doorstep between
1 unisia and the Italian island
of Sardinia.
The location of the battle, the
strength and composition given
by Home for the allied naval
torce and the reckless expendi
ture of planes in the attack on it
suggested either that Italian ter
ritory itself might be under at
tack or that the allies were en
gaged in a great transfer of
strength between Gibraltar and
Suez.
The Italian high command, in
a special communique, claimed
that two cruisers, one destroyer
and four steamers were sunk
out of one of two British con
voys. and a battleship, an air
craft carrier, two cruisers, one
destroyer and four steamers
heavily damaged.
The Italians said the convoy
attacked was protected by "nu
merous units of the line and by
two aircraft carriers.” Spotting
the convoy early Saturday, Ital
ians said their scout planes
later lost sight of it and the first
attack was not delivered until
Sunday.
"Numerous lorm.itions of torpedo
planes, bombers and fighters then
* truck '.he ilotilla". the Italians re
lated. They acknowledged Hi) planes
lost themselves and reported shoot
ing 15 carrier-borne planes down
n flames.
"The ope ratio!:- we’re resumed in
the early hour.- of this morning
.'taai::.-t the remaining units," the
communique concluded.
Naval warfare broke out
meanwhile in the Black sea
where the Red fleet, thundering
into action to bolster Scvatopol
against land assault .laid a cur
tain of shellfire on the encroach
ing Crimean line of the Ger
mans.
With dwindling tune in which to
start a grand . tien.-ive before they
are smitten atlank nr at the rear on
a set ond K.,r ]><■,.n front, the Gor
in ns are threshing at the ramparts
of Sevastopol while the remainder
of the last Gem an-Russian front
shows signs of a . imminent general
flai'eup.
Despite a spendthrift u.-o of fight
ing men. v. hi eh n some sectors out
weighed the Red army and civilian
defenders live md six to one, Adolf
Hitlei still had only the hasty graves
’f his dead to show for his all out
effort against Sevastopol.
The Crime n port and base of
Russia's Black sea fleet still flew
the hammer and sickle though no one
could say how long the hard pressed
defenders could hold out. The vio
lence of the fight mounted by the
hour.
The German high command said
several fortified positions on the
southern sid eol' Sevastopol’s broad
belt of defenses had been captured
by storming German infantry while
lfi defending planes were shot down
yesterday by German bombers and
fighters over the Sevastopol fortress
area.
Mast ■* Karknv. where the Ger
mans have been trying for positions
from which to launch a grand offen
sive toward the Caucasus, a battle
for rectification of the line was said
by Hitler’, command to have end
«-'Ci lit h-- ue'*fAc*n.- favor.